CHN Urges Members of the House of Representatives to Vote NO on the Reconciliation Proposal
May 21, 2025
CHN’s COVID-19 Watch: Tracking Hardship, August 19, 2022
CHN Staff,
August 19, 2022
The health care savings edition. The pandemic’s flames rage on, with nearly 100,000 new cases in the U.S. every day and nearly 500 deaths. But there is good news to report. President Biden this week signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which will lower prescription drug and other health care costs for millions of Americans. The legislation covers other things of tremendous consequence – the most significant U.S. response to climate change ever and making corporations pay more of their fair share with a 15 percent corporate tax rate, for example. But the health care provisions contained in the bill are historic too.
Biden’s inflation bill is (mostly) good news for people and the planet
CHN Staff,
August 18, 2022
President Biden and the Democrats are celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a stripped down version of the Build Back Better agenda. The new bill will help reduce inflation, address climate change, and ease economic hardship — a little, over time, and with conditions. But that’s still a big deal.
President Biden signs the historic Inflation Reduction Act: Biden Administration scores a victory for people over profit
CHN Staff,
August 16, 2022
In the rollercoaster ride to this day when President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, it seemed all too possible that no law would reach the President’s desk. Members of the Coalition on Human Needs applaud the victory that the President’s signature represents: the unflagging efforts by the Administration and members of Congress to make progress because they recognized that failure would be measured in preventable sickness, hardship, and growing environmental threats.
With House passage, President Biden can sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law: Historic live-saving steps we must build upon
CHN Staff,
August 12, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act provides extremely important help. It will reduce hardship, improve health, and start to protect our future. But we’ve got more to do, both to make sure the law fulfills its promises, and to take up the unfinished business that we owe ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren.
Remembering Bill Collins
CHN Staff,
August 11, 2022
I learned this week about the passing of a remarkable man. Bill Collins died recently in a car accident at the age of 87. Bill was a popular former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut. In his hometown, tributes have poured in celebrating Bill’s legacy of revitalizing the city’s downtown, professionalizing its civil service, and championing affordable housing over his four terms in office. But I got to know Bill because of the remarkable work he did after retiring from public service.
